50 Movie Quotes about Struggle (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Apr 23, 2026

Memorable quotes about struggle, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 I have not eaten for days. -And who says you will?

Gerry Lopez as Subotai; Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan The Barbarian in Conan the Barbarian (1982)

2 Everything complicated. One big medieval mess.

Karl Swenson as Merlin in The Sword in the Stone (1963)

3 Just look at that miserable creature, doggedly struggling to maintain life, a gaunt, lean bag of bones and feathers. Truly a picture of despair.

Edgar Bergen as Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd in Fun and Fancy Free

4 Life's imperfect. -Yeah. For you two. Circling above it at 500 feet, it's imperfect. Down in the street, it's unforgiving.

Tom Sizemore as Danny Mcknight in Black Hawk Down

5 Sometimes life's just hard... for no reason at all.

Quote from Remember the Titans

6 Well, the past, man's past, is mainly a grim struggle for survival. But there have been moments when a few voices have spoken up and these rare moments have made the history of man, man's past, a glorious thing.

Rod Taylor as H. George Wells in The Time Machine (1960)

7 Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked, in the head, by an iron boot?

Peter Graves as Capt. Clarence Oveur in Airplane (1980)

8 Was there any sign of a struggle? -No, there was nothing. She was just lying on the bathroom floor.

Quote from The Tingler (1959)

9 Symbolic of his struggle against reality.

John Cleese in Monty Python's Life of Brian

10 What a way to go through life: living out of trash cans, eating leftover leftovers.

Mel Blanc as Sylvester The Cat in Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement